Sentences with phrase «help close the academic achievement gap»

Inspired by former educators and determined to help close the academic achievement gap, Cristina joined Teach For America in Houston, Texas.

Having firmly committed itself to many of the same reforms, at least as rendered in broad strokes, the DFL found itself again playing defense — this time, to limit the new policies to measures intended to help close the academic achievement gap, not strip the grownups trying to make it happen of their contractual rights.

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The authors concluded that successful public charter high schools in low - income neighborhoods can have beneficial health effects, and could help to close the growing academic achievement gap between wealthy and poor students.

My ultimate goal is to return to the U.S. and help design and implement policies that can close the academic achievement gap in this country.»

Stanford University's John W. Gardner Center has found student perceptions to be linked to academic outcomes, and a recent synthesis of 15 years of research found that a healthy school climate — often measured through surveys — can help close the achievement gap.

With your support of publicly funded programs such as quality early childhood education, college and career prep, STEM initiatives, arts education, and extended - day learning, we will help existing schools work towards closing the achievement gap and help prepare our students for success in academics and in life.

Charter schools help close the achievement gap and raise the bar for academic achievement, particularly with low - income or minority students.

As a classroom teacher, building level administrator, and chief academic officer, her priorities of her service remain educating the whole child, closing achievement gaps and helping all students succeed.

The Blue Ribbon School award honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools that have helped close the achievement gap and whose students attain and maintain high academic goals.

As a Los Angeles native, she is determined to help the community reach higher academic gains to close the achievement gap.

Learning in the Fast Lane: 8 Ways to Put ALL Students on the Road to Academic Success: In this new book, Suzy Pepper Rollins, a veteran classroom teacher and education consultant, offers strategies to accelerate the learning of underperforming students and help close achievement gaps.

For example, despite universal agreement that pre-K improves academic and life outcomes, especially for poor children, Wentzell said she did not know whether pre-K helps close achievement gaps.

As much as I can understand some of the motivations behind opting out of standardized tests, I think it complicates the goal of helping all students to achieve at higher levels and close long standing academic achievement gaps.

High - quality tutoring can meet each student at his or her individual level, 22 a level of differentiation that is impossible for even the most dedicated of teachers to provide.23 Essentially, every student with an educated, engaged parent has access to one - on - one tutoring at home, which is perhaps one of the reasons why homework compounds the advantages enjoyed by middle - class children.24 For students who, for a variety of reasons, may not have access to that kind of academic assistance at home, receiving more tailored instruction from their schools can help to level the playing field and close achievement gaps.25

Carefully constructed group learning activities can foster students» academic and social growth and help close the achievement gap.

Additionally, a recent comprehensive review of 15 years of research about school climate, inequality, and academic achievement finds that a positive school climate can help close the achievement gap.

The Blue Ribbon Award designation goes to public and private elementary, middle and high schools whose students achieve at very high levels, or have made significant academic progress and helped close gaps in achievement especially among disadvantaged and minority students.

For those families who are not lifted out of poverty by formal child support payments, the assistance can still help close the «poverty gap» that these families face.3 In addition to the economic benefits, child support payments are associated with greater academic achievement and fewer externalizing problems in children.4, 5,6 Previous research also shows that fathers who voluntarily establish paternity are more likely to pay child support (despite being less likely to have a child support order), to pay more over the long term, and to increase their payments over time.7

Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) * is intended to improve the academic success of disadvantaged children by providing funds to help schools raise academic achievement and close the achievement gap; hire, train, and retain well - qualified teachers; and reduce dropouts.